Theresa Yu

Theresa Yu is a highly promising 18 year-old pianist from Sydney, Australia. She is currently in her first year of undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music as an RCM Scholar supported by a Somers-Mountfort Scholarship, as well as by the Zetland Foundation, and is studying under Professor Andrew Ball.

Theresa received her AMusA in 2006 and her LMusA in 2010 from the Australian Music Examinations Board, and has been the recipient of many prizes from various state-wide and national competitions and eisteddfods in Australia. She was a finalist in the 2012 Fine Music 102.5 Young Performer’s Award, a semi-finalist in the NSW Secondary Schools Concerto Competition and has also won the Zonta Young Performer’s Encouragement Award and performed a recital in the Theme and Variations Emerging Artists Concert Series. Theresa has performed at venues such as the Sydney Opera House, Verbrugghen Hall and the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. Recently, she was invited to perform in the inaugural Lucas Parklands Young Musicians’ Festival on the Sunshine Coast in Australia.

In 2013, Theresa performed the first movement of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 on the harpsichord with a chamber orchestra under the mentorship of Paul Dyer, Artistic Director of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. She has also broadcast on numerous occasions on Fine Music 102.5, and has been awarded the Kathleen Holmes Macrae Scholarship from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Theresa’s past teachers have included Zara Bulatova, Nikolai Evrov, and Daniel Herscovitch, and she has participated in masterclasses with leading pianists such as Gerard Willems.

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